The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Volume 2Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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Pagina 9
... common observation , the prosperity of our friends ( for our own is too interested to deserve the name ) , the virtues we observe in others , the composure of the state , the fertility of the earth , and the operations of nature . But ...
... common observation , the prosperity of our friends ( for our own is too interested to deserve the name ) , the virtues we observe in others , the composure of the state , the fertility of the earth , and the operations of nature . But ...
Pagina 17
... common decency , the women of exactness in their play - debts without charity to their neighbours , — and all the other votaries of false honour , when I presume to affirm that the principle of true honour is religion ! When honour is ...
... common decency , the women of exactness in their play - debts without charity to their neighbours , — and all the other votaries of false honour , when I presume to affirm that the principle of true honour is religion ! When honour is ...
Pagina 34
... common viscera , placed in the centre : what the bud of the tree is to the invisible buds it contains , such is the exterior part of the caterpillar , or larva , to the in- terior bodies it contains in its bosom . Four of these have the ...
... common viscera , placed in the centre : what the bud of the tree is to the invisible buds it contains , such is the exterior part of the caterpillar , or larva , to the in- terior bodies it contains in its bosom . Four of these have the ...
Pagina 35
... common flower , and the employment of an insect within its little cavity . I had the pleasure to attend yesterday a very amiable and worthy friend to his villa at a few miles distant from town ; and , while the company were high in ...
... common flower , and the employment of an insect within its little cavity . I had the pleasure to attend yesterday a very amiable and worthy friend to his villa at a few miles distant from town ; and , while the company were high in ...
Pagina 37
... common service ; and that though they appear so numerous and indefinite , there is not a single flower on the whole tree but has them in the same number to the utmost exactness , and punctually in the same NO . 54 . 37 THE GLEANER .
... common service ; and that though they appear so numerous and indefinite , there is not a single flower on the whole tree but has them in the same number to the utmost exactness , and punctually in the same NO . 54 . 37 THE GLEANER .
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Pagina 129 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Pagina 373 - Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait And looks commercing with the skies...
Pagina 281 - HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content — whate'er thy name. That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die...
Pagina 373 - There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad, leaden, downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast.
Pagina 110 - Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.
Pagina 8 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness, earth and heaven!) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime: here hand in hand, Sit paramount the Graces; here enthroned, Celestial Venus, with divinest airs, Invites the soul to never-fading joy.
Pagina 218 - His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Pagina 41 - IT may seem strange that none of our political writers, in their learned treatises on the English constitution should take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords, and Commons, all entirely passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in this community, and have been long dignified and distinguished by the name of The Mob.
Pagina 14 - God, binding themselves by a solemn oath, not for the purposes of any wicked design, but never to commit any fraud, theft, or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate and then reassemble to eat in common a harmless meal.
Pagina 68 - For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heaven and earth : And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems...